Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a pro se filing by a counseled defendant is not per se a legal nullity and that “a court has the discretion to recognize a timely and otherwise procedurally 4 proper pro se filing made by a defendant who is still formally represented by counsel”
• overturning precedent that pro se filings from represented individuals were legal nullities and holding that trial courts had the discretion to accept such filings
• discussing the limited circumstances in which a criminal defendant is authorized to file pro se pleadings while represented by counsel
• overruling prior decisions “to the extent that they hold that pro se filings by counseled defendants are 1 See Johnson v. State, 315 Ga. 876, 890-891 (4) & n. 15 (885 SE2d 725) (2023
• stare decisis did not require retaining a decision that was “unreasoned (bordering on accidental)” and “in conflict with our own decisions”
• trial court has discretion to consider pro se motion filed while defendant is still represented by counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wasserman v. Franklin County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 23×
• COBB COUNTY v. FLOAM
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-09· cited 22×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 9×
• REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE v. ETERNAL VIGILANCE ACTION, INC. (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 8×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 7×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 7×
• State v. Wierson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 6×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 5×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 4×
• VANTAGE CANCER CENTERS OF GEORGIA, LLC v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 3×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 2×
• Justin Alan Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-01-09
• Davoric Tilman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-04-04
• Justin Alan Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-04-08
• Jessie Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-04-09
• Christopher Shawn Shriver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-15
• Raissa Kengne v. the State of Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-07-22
• Raissa D. Kengne v. the State of Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-07-25
• Lora Allmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-08-05

Cites

58 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pearson v. Callahan
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 13,928×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• McKaskle v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,288×
• People v. Clark
  California Supreme Court· 1992-07-30· cited 360×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Tolbert v. Toole
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 171×
• Olevik v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 150×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-15· cited 141×
• Georgia Department of Natural Resources v. Center for a Sustainable Coast, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 133×
• State v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 120×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 90×
• Gibson v. Turpin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 75×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 72×
• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-07-03· cited 72×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• Southall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 68×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-13· cited 57×
• State v. Hudson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 56×